Recommended Reading List

Recommended Reading List

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:24 pm

by ALRA

Recommended Reading List

Below are useful sources of information. Of course, this is not a complete list, and you are strongly encouraged to find new ones (and update the list!) As always, each source must be checked for location and time period to ensure it applies to any particular persona, and no source is perfect.

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This list was last updated on November 12, 2017.

1. Primary source defined. A contemporary account of or the description of an item or article of clothing. These may be official documents, diaries, first hand written accounts, newspapers, or paintings or engravings of the time period. Books and published articles that describe equipment and clothing that are in museums and are presented by authoritative sources should be acceptable as a primary source. An archaeological recovery and the reports of that discovery giving dates, locations, etc, are for our purposes to be considered a primary source.

2. Secondary source defined. Sources that review and interpret primary sources. Secondary sources may provide more information about an item because they review more than one primary source. Secondary sources may include reproductions of original pieces as examples. Secondary sources should be scholarly and by recognized authorities. They are used when a second primary source cannot be found.

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Archeological

Calver, William & Bolton, Reginald, History Written With Pick and Shovel, New York Historical Society, New York, NY 1950

Commanger, Henry Steele and Morris, Richard B. (eds), The Spirit of Seventy Six, The Story of the American Revolution, As Told By Participants, Da Capo Press, New York, NY 1995

Cook, Frederick (Ed.), Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779, Knapp, Peck and Thomson, Auburn, NY 1887 (Reprint: Heritage Books, Bowie, MD 2000)

St. John de Crevecouer, Hector J., Letters From An American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth Century America, Penguin Books, New York, NY 1981

Stockham, Peter, editor,Little Book of Early American Crafts & Trades, Dover Publications, Inc, New York, NY 1976. This is an unabridged republication of Part I of the work published by Jacob Johnson in Philadelphia and Richmond in 1807 under the title The Book of Trades, or Library of the Useful Arts

Townsend, James, and Son, Inc, editor, Sifting the Past, Studying the Past, One Image at a Time, http://siftingthepast.com, Pierceton, IN

Kemmer, Brenton, Redcoats, Yankees, and Allies. A History of the Uniforms, Clothing, and Gear of the British Army in the Lake George - Lake Champlain Corridor, 1755 - 1760, Heritage Books, Westminster, MD 2007

Stephenson, R. S., Clash of Empires: The British, French & Indian War 1754-1763. Senator John Heinz Pittsburg Regional History Center and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, PA 2005